#atsab

[conscious-naivete]

i started this in september for the zine fest, this still counts! i thought, hmmm i’ve been listening to heaps of various forms of space scifi, what could i possibly do a zine about?

this was my first ever zine! i think i might do a follow-up of honorable mentions that didn’t make it in, i already had to modify the format cuz i had too much to say xD

[nireidi]

*Among the stars and bones spoilers*

Ok so I’m a huge fan of the among the stars and bones podcast. It’s excellent, but I just listened to the prequel episodes and the visceral gut wrenching response I had when Gordon fucking price started singing? Ugh. I hate that guy so much.

Honestly sign of some amazing writing that I can hate the guy the deeply in only 10 episodes 😂

[jontycrane]

Atsabe and around Letefoho, Ermera Municipality

One of the best things about volunteering at HAMNASA, a local NGO in Timor-Leste, is heading out on the road with them. They run community development activities in small villages and hamlets, giving me the opportunity to visit places that few other malae (foreigners) have been to. I have to work, taking photos and making videos, plus introducing myself to large groups in the local language…

[mercuryandmoonpods]

12, 24, 25!

hi! thank you for asking!!

we already did 12, short answer, we'd be into adapting classics and period dramas!

24: what show are we most looking forward to that isn't out yet?

delphine:

I super cannot pretend to be as into the podcast scene as Asha but. um. among the stars and bones season 2! which my wonderful friend is in! wow!

asha:

my ear hasn't been as close to the ground as usual in recent months (been busy with other projects), but the third season of @iriscasefiles is one i can't wait for! plus @cauterizedpod looks very cool! i like the concept :D

i'm also VERY excited for atsab s2, not only because i'm in it, though also becasue i'm in it LMAO no in all seriousness it's going to be excellent!! the plot is a total rollercoaster, i love it <3

[ciochinaflorin]

32 I 2023. VALOAREA POZITIVĂ A MÂHNIRII [1 Impărați 1.5–10 I 2 Corinteni 4.17]

32 I 2023. VALOAREA POZITIVĂ A MÂHNIRII I Podcast I Pasaje Biblice : I Împărați 1 : 5 – 10 I II Corinteni 4 : 17 I Meditaţii din Cuvânt I Cezareea I Reşiţa I 1 Februarie 2023 I Rădăcina cuvântului ebraic „atsab” (a supăra, a mâhni, a întrista) are sensul de „a sculpta, a fabrica” dar are și înțelesul de „mod”. Mâhnirea nu are doar efecte negative ci are și efecte pozitive. (more…) “”

[me-a-nerd]

Here I am just spreading the word the Among the Stars and Bones is a hella good podcast and you should definitely check it out. Aliens, archaeology, horror, and probably other things that I forgot about even though I literally just finished listening to it.

[remnantglow]

why are there so many podcasts about scientists having a God Awful time in space. well guess what. not gonna discourage me. if i'm going down i’m going down fist-fighting an alien on an exoplanet and having the absolute time of my life and i AM refusing to die until that can happen

[apelmove]

Me, Listening to Among the Stars and Bones S1EP6:

*Cue me crying*

[neighbourhoodtwo]

People have spent weeks telling their supervisors "I'd advise against doing the test we need more time we dont have all the information it would endanger our lives we don't want to be killed by alien AI please don't do the test" only for the test to go ahead and people to be killed anyway

[coffeenewstom]

19 grams Adventskalender: 23. Türchen "Koileki", Osttimor

19 grams Adventskalender: 23. Türchen “Koileki”, Osttimor

Der Kaffee hinter dem 23. Türchen führt uns bis an den Rand der Welt! Denn der Koileki-Kaffee kommt aus Timor-Leste, im Deutschen auch als Osttimor bezeichnet. Die Demokratische Republik Timor-Leste ist ein Inselstaat in Südostasien. Es war der erste Staat, der im 21. Jahrhundert unabhängig wurde. Mit Sicherheit ist der Koileki eine der interessantesten Bohnen im Kaffee-Adventskalender von 19…

[nightblood999]

Podcast Recommendations:

Down

Down is a 24-part science-fiction series about an expedition into a newly-discovered Antarctic trench, dubbed The Bottomless Pit. The company-backed research submarine Virgil is elegant, state-of-the-art, and capable of withstanding enormous pressures. The same cannot be said for her crew.

Try this podcast if you like:

Marscorp: Down and Marscorp are both made by Definitely human, and they both have excellent voice acting and some very funny moments. Marscorp is more of a comedy than Down, but I would still recommend trying it out. You will like it.

Among the Stars and Bones: Down has a similar feeling of exploration as ATSAB. Have I mentioned the voice acting?

Wolf 359: I know, I know, space is the not the same as the ocean, but Down crew reminded me a lot of the Wolf 359 crew. Its a small group of lovable and eccentric people and maybe a monster that can shapeshift. If you liked Wolf 359 for the people, you'll like Down.

[conscious-naivete]

“I managed to finish up at the Alpha site and get back here for a late dinner out in the central shaft. And I was sitting here when the clouds parted. It was dinner time by our clock, but midday on the surface above. And the light of Scorpii shone down through a translucent ceiling. But it wasn’t merely translucent. Somehow, I don’t know how, it broke the light and scattered it in arcs and rainbows, rebounding off projections on the pillars and guardrails on each level to bounce back a hundred times.

The patterns… I…I can’t describe them. I mean I’ve seen holographic images and laser symphonies and all that. I’ve seen what the human mind can conceive. And you remember what the sun setting behind the crystal structures on Vega was like. But this was something else. This was some sort of blending of nature and physics with the creativity of a conscious mind. And it elevated both.

The images changed with the movement of the sun across the sky, shifting like an old-fashioned kaleidoscope. And for, I don’t know, 20 minutes, there was nothing but dead silence in that chamber. There’d been all kinds of activity going on at levels above and below and it all just…stopped. I didn’t really notice, but people came out of the living quarters and out of the alpha site tunnel and everyone just… stood there. It was one of those perfect moments.

When the clouds came back we all sort of looked at each other. Little smiles. Then after a few moments, we all just drifted back to what we’d been doing. I had to reheat the ration pack, which made it even less palatable than it was before, but it was totally worth it. I didn’t think to get a recorder going, but you might want to check through general uploads from other members of the team in the data packet. Someone would’ve caught it.

No way that a recording could do it justice though.

And this is what we came here to learn. Something about who these people were that is much more eloquent than their technology. I mean whatever they might be able to do, or how much faster they can travel beyond light speed than us, how they can turn a planet from a storm-raging toxic permanent night to a habitable haven means nothing to me next to the knowledge I got in those 20 minutes.

I learnt something about what the Proximans think of beauty and what it means to them. I mean… they built this colony city, attached it to a ship and sent it god alone knows how far through space. It would have taken forever to construct it, not to mention the space and energy and resources that went into something this large. And they did so knowing they were sending it to burrow into a dark hole on a dark world where it would be in shadow for, who knows, fifty years at least?

But they still thought it important enough, still thought it crucial enough, to create a thing of beauty, something that can’t help but lift the spirit when you see it, against the day when they would be able to clear this sky and have the light of their new sun fall on the ceiling dome and send a well of colour and light down to what was once the darkest of places. That speaks of a people with poetry in their soul.”

—Among the Stars and Bones, Season 1, Episode 2 “Seh-Par-Ay-Shun”

[jontycrane]

Tiarlelo, Ermera Municipality

About twenty minutes drive downhill from Atsabe is the village of Tiarlelo. This was one of my favourite places I’d visited in Timor-Leste to this point. It was a peaceful, friendly, and beautifully located place, surrounded by mountains. This is well off the tourist path. I was there supporting the local NGO HAMNASA with their community engagement activities, taking photos and making…

[currentlybeltingbohemianrhapsody]

atsab (assigned tumblr sexyman at birth)

[coffeetillthecoffin]

Ethiopian Aricha and Timor-Leste Atsabe, Flight Coffee

Price: $21 (Aricha) and $16 (Atsabe) for 250g

Got these from Flight Coffee a couple of weeks ago! I think the first single origin filter coffee I ever tried at home was also a Yirgacheffe (back in March 2020) which I grew to love, and I don't think I've had one since! So I was pretty happy when I saw Flight Coffee had one, and am enjoying it so far! Haven't opened the one from Timor- Leste yet, but I hope to sometime this week!

[inky-bun]

I like how NG Blixer is when snowie touched him, he's just like, “DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH ME, PEASANT."

Yet again, we're talking about the same shape that wanted Fresh (my Blixer) to be New Game because of Agate giving info about Fresh's second form-

Seriously, do you want Giggle Man to be in the same room as you-

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Ok, I know this is unrelated, and I know this was all in dms (I think, idk it’s been too long) but I should probably clarify Blixer’s insistence to not wanting to be touched

Short answer, he just doesn’t like being touched, like ever. The only exceptions are just light touches from people he knows extremely well. Same thing goes for his NG form, because he has the same opinions, he’s just more aggressive about it rather than just being “please stop touching me, I don’t like that”

Longer answer, he’s just like Blue. And this is what prompted me to answer with this in the first place since this is somewhat relevant still. Blixer doesn’t like being touched without his consent (and in general), and Blue doesn’t like being touched without its consent. He is autistic and that does contribute to his distaste to being touched, but he also just wouldn’t like to be touched anyway if he wasn’t

So no, he doesn’t think Snowie is a peasant, far from it, he is rather impressed on her abilities, he just doesn’t like to be touched ever

This is like many many many months old, and it bothered me as much then as it did now, but it just didn’t seem very important to need to discuss it until now with what happened to Blue in atsab

And this isn’t an attack on you personally, I realize that I haven’t been that explicit in saying “please don’t touch Blixer he seriously doesn’t like that” but this is also for everyone else to know as well since it is somewhat relevant (is it though? It happened like a few weeks ago. Is Blue getting upset at being touched still relevant? Hmu Angel let me know /j) and again I haven’t really made a proper post talking about it, so I think using this as an outlet for it is good enough for now

Hope this clears up any confusion :]